The semicontinuity conjecture for minimal log discrepancies

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Let XX be a normal \Q\Q-Gorenstein variety over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 00, and let YY be a formal R\R-linear combination of proper closed subschemes of XX with positive coefficients. For a closed point x∈Xx\in X, write

\mld(x;X,Y)=inf⁡E{aE(X,Y):cX(E)⊂{x}}.\mld(x;X,Y)=\inf_E\{a_E(X,Y):c_X(E)\subset\{x\}\}.

The semicontinuity conjecture for minimal log discrepancies. The function

x↦\mld(x;X,Y)x\mapsto \mld(x;X,Y)

is lower-semicontinuous on the closed points of XX. The conjecture concerns the variation of singularities in algebraic families and is a central open problem in the theory of minimal log discrepancies. The source gives no resolution status for this statement.

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Devlin Mallory, “Minimal log discrepancies of determinantal varieties via jet schemes”, arXiv:1905.05379 (2019).

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